EDEN's Best Research Paper Award was announced yesterday evening by the Chair of the Jury, Ingeborg Boe at the Conference Dinner. In collaboration with the Ulrich Bernath
Foundation for Research in Open and Distance Learning, with the support
of a distinguished Jury.

This year's winners were Emanuele Rapetti and Lorenzo Cantoni
from Universita della Svizzera Italiana in Switzerland with their paper is entitled Reconsidering "Gen Y" & Co: From Minding the Gap to
Overcoming it.

Friday, June 8, 2012

Dale Stephens gave an inspiring speech this morning on unschooling with a remarkable speed and list of references. Here is a list for those who were not fast enough to type the links. Read the interview with Dale we did for the conference. Here you find another interview, a fellow unschooler did with Dale.

Open Unconventional University Courses

creativeLIVE: Free classes live. Pay for past recorded classes. Alison: Advanced Learning Interactive Systems Online. Offers 300+ free and
interactive multimedia training courses. saylor.org: Free ed. website with 13 areas of study each containing many courses that include readings, assignments, and other media.Udemy: Attend or create online courses. From free to $250 on any subject. Can include video, PowerPoint, PDFs, audio, and or classes.Learnable: Attend or create online courses from $10-50 on Web Dev, Tech, Lifestyle, and Business.

Video and Audio Lectures

TED: Tech Entertainment Design. Presentations of the most innovative ideas from around the world.Textbook Revolution: Student-run (crowdsourced) site that provides links to free online
textbooks and other educational materials from teacher and professors.bookboon.com: Over 1000 open ebooks written by professors and other experts for students, business professionals, and travel guides.DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals. Free, full text, scientific journals. Research anything.Project Gutenberg: 36,000+ open books (download as ebook) whose copyrights have expired.Scribd: “The world’s largest social reading and publishing company. Share and
discover entertaining, informative and original written content across
the web and mobile devices.”

Online Learning Communities

iversity: The collaboration network for academia.P2PU: Crowd sourced learning, P2P learning anything. Sophia: Free learning packets are voted up or down by members and stamped for
correctness. Over 1000 learning packets mostly in Math, English and
Science.Wikiversity: Search the 15,000+ Wikipedia resources by type, school, level, and completion status.The Public School: School with no curriculum, classes proposed by public, people can sign
up, and when there is enough interest, they find a teacher.Citizen Circles: Social Innovation fueled by peer learning. 3+ person groups that solve
local problems. Learning Unlimited: Learning Unlimited is leading a movement of college students teaching high school students everything and anything.

Study Groups

Course Hero: Access to the learning materials, tutors, and textbook help. OpenStudy: 1000s of students. Find students who can help you. Post a question and
others answer. hoot.me: Switch Facebook into study mode.Codecademy: Learn coding with your friends. Take courses for beginners.StackExchange: Growing network of 66 Q&A sites on many diverse topics.Kibin: Crowdsourced editing community for essays, articles, resumes, poems, and any written content.

Some of you are there face-to-face listening to the keynotes on site. Some of you might follow online (sorry again for the stream hickups), but all of you might want to check the references Gyula Hegy and Bob Fryer mentioned in their presentations this morning. Here are soem of them (thanks to all the Twitter contributors!)

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